Walk a forest with your building design in mind and select individual trees to harvest for your home. Each tree is chosen both for its structural and design integrity and for the effect that its removal will have on the forest left standing around it. Often the selection will be based as much on thinning an overcrowded stand or managing an invasive species as it will on that tree being the nearest with a 10 inch diameter trunk.
A house made from junked Dodge Caravans...
With just a few cords, build a home...
Sheds and cabins built from firewood...
Not your typical bamboo furniture...
Bamboo Building Inspiration
Old boats become furniture and stay forever more on dry land. What to do with that old wooden boat...
“If man walks in nature’s midst, then he is nature’s guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest.” Dreams do come true...
Green roofs on offices, public buildings, schools and more...
Green roof inspiration for homes, sheds and arbors...
Popular in Europe for decades...starting to catch on in the rest of the world. The price of a natural swimming pool are comparable to an inground pool, yet maintenance costs are much less. Have you ever thought about how many pounds of chemicals go into a typical swimming pool? Let nature do the work for free.
Reconstructed, reuse, recycled, reclaimed kitchen ideas...
Dirt cheap....earthbag building is also known as superadobe, flexible-form rammed earth or sandbag construction. Whatever you call it, it is earthquake resistant, flood resistant, hurricane resistant, fire resistant and termite proof.
Flooding is a natural function of rivers. Sea levels are predicted to rise. There are two types of floating homes, permanently floating homes and homes that float only when flood waters swell, but sit on the ground during the dry season. Requiring the later on new construction within floodplains, and considering same for threatened shorelines, is one way to plan for the future. Although floating homes near the coast need protected waters, wave attenuation through wave walls and dykes (as used in Europe) are a future possibility. Inaction is costly. Some inspiration for those on waterways...
Cardboard Reuse -- chairs, tables, lamps, bookshelves and art. With some used cardboard, tape, earth-friendly glue, scissors and a utility knife you could furnish your entire home...
Plastic Bottle Schools are being built around the world...
Aluminum can walls and homes. Can do aluminum inspiration...
Plastic Waste Lighting...
"Re-use as a design tool (and material) is still extremely under explored, and it holds so much potential – both as a source of raw material and as a beautiful limitation." Heath Nash
Cork Chair Inspiration...
Sustainable Chair Inspiration.... Reuse Chairs
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Vertical Farm Inspiration from practical to futuristic... Will the public pay for these structures and let the farmlands return to the wild?
There are numerous builders around the world filling up used plastic bottles with mud or sand and creating schools, stores, homes, greenhouses... The possibilities are endless. Lots of pictures to inspire...
In the future; will we give back the land to native plants and animals and live up in the trees? Hovering aircraft are available, we just need to wait for the clean energy versions... If we compost our waste, give up plastics and petroleum, grow hydrophonically...what would our new footprint be? More photos...
Are wooden bathtubs environmentally positive? If you grew the bamboo or cedar in your backyard and then made it yourself- definitely! These examples might not be the greenest and they cost a pretty penny, but it must feel wonderful to bath in wood. In the past bathtubs were made of wood, marble or ceramic tile. Cast-iron starting in the 1880s, then enamel over steel...now mostly formed acrylic, fiberglass or porcelain on steel. Wood holds heat longer than other tub materials. Unfinished wood tubs must be used regularly or kept partially filled with a bit of water to prevent them from drying out and warping or shrinking.
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